David Farrar
Policy Lead - Climate Governance and ESG, Department for Work and Pensions
Policy Lead - Climate Governance and ESG, Department for Work and Pensions
David Farrar is Policy Lead - Climate governance and ESG at the UK’s Department for Work and Pensions, where he has worked since 2003, and in workplace pensions policy since 2014. In recent years, he has delivered regulations on the charge cap; cost, charge and investment disclosure; the introduction of tailored risk warnings in personal pensions with guaranteed annuity rates; accelerating and removing barriers to DC consolidation; and clarifying and strengthening trustees’ duties around ESG. He currently leads on DWP’s work on climate change risk in the UK’s Pension Schemes Bill and embedding climate governance and the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) into pension scheme decision making.
